By popular demand I’m bringing you another coconut yoghurt recipe. It’s dairy free, vegan and Paleo.

With so many people choosing coconut yoghurt over the dairy variety, I thought I would offer up an even simpler recipe. The original recipe required additional thickening and recommended an organic brand of coconut milk that is difficult to find in stores. This recipe is fast and cheaper to make – truly bringing coconut yoghurt to the masses!…

About 10 years ago I took garlic out of my diet for what I thought was forever. I used to think that garlic was my worst enemy.

Long before I had the motivation and determination to permanently remove other inflammatory foods from my diet such as gluten, sugar and dairy, garlic got all the blame. It was a far easier target.

Now, I can’t believe I did that to myself and I wonder how I ever enjoyed food without it. I can tell you now, I ate many a bland meal. And it wasn’t an easy task. It’s is in everything, right? Asking people to leave it out, on my behalf seemed sacrilege. I’m sure I wasn’t a popular dinner guest.

I should point out, it wasn’t just garlic that copped the chop from my grocery list, onion was eliminated too. And, anything onion-esque, like spring onion, salad onion, purple and white. They all caused me grief. I blew up like a balloon until I felt my insides would tear. Cooked was bad enough, raw was impossible.…

Nut milk can be the basis for a super-duper, super food; gut loving almond milk yoghurt.

Homemade yoghurt is a super food and nuts are a superfood and they have come together at last. Add some probiotics and you have a gut loving and healing food that is perfect for you to enjoy if you are lactose intolerant, vegan, or simply an ordinary, everyday nut addict. Absolutely no one needs to miss out on the benefits of homemade, probiotic rich, yoghurt.

Almond milk yoghurt must be made from scratch, however. There are no short cuts; you have to start right from the actual nuts. Additives and preservatives in store bought nut milk will not produce good yoghurt. But don’t worry, making nut milk at home is a breeze. You can find how to make delicious almond milk at home here….

Making nut milk sounds tricky but in fact, it’s incredibly simple. With a blender, the hands-on time is about 15 minutes; even less with practice.

Not just almond love!

Nut milk can be made from any nut you fancy. Experiment. I tend to stick to almonds because they are readily available, are incredibly nutritious, affordable to buy organic (which is a big plus) and a rich source of prebiotic. Food for your good gut bacteria, that is. You can read about my love for almonds and particularly their skin here.…

If you are dairy intolerant or paleo, you can get all the awesome probiotic benefits of 24 hour yoghurt, making it from coconut milk.

This isn’t any ordinary coconut yoghurt you can buy in the store by the way. Based on the science of the Specific Carbohydrate diet (SCD), 24 hour coconut yoghurt is a powerful healing food that must be homemade. Read a description of the many health benefits of SCD yoghurt here and here.

With the addition of one super ingredient, the steps are virtually the same as the dairy variety and just as easy. I say ‘easy’ now but I didn’t always consider coconut yoghurt that way. I have been on the hunt for the perfect, failsafe recipe for years and through batch after batch of runny attempts, I know homemade coconut yoghurt to be a tricky beast….

Tasty Savoury Coconut Sprinkle.

Now and again I whip up little, nutty concoctions to spice up my life.

Do you ever feel like every inch of kitchen creativity has been leeched; that there is not one single recipe out there capable of inspiring you? Ahh, I often do and I love to cook. There are always going to be days (or weeks) that life gets in the way of anyone’s desire to cook from scratch. These are the times when a little sprinkle of tasty goodness can save the day, or at least save a meal.…

Pretty in Pink Strawberry Cupcakes.

Wondering how to get the pretty, princess pink, party food wow factor back into cake decorating without artificial colouring? Simple; crush freeze dried strawberries. What a sensational little idea! So simple and so pink. 100% natural with an intense strawberry flavour – oddly enough!

Without any doubt home-made 24 hour SCD yoghurt must be my debut recipe post on A Gut Feeling! It’s the stand out, make a difference, too good to be missed, jam packed with goodness, white, wobbly stuff that is a must for everyone’s gut!

Now we all know that yoghurt is meant to be good for us. Right? Yes, all the ads tell us so. There’s a huge market out there. That’s why people eat it for breakfast, that’s why we put it in smoothies and it’s marketed to children. Ahhh but Stop!!! Most of it is rubbish! Most supermarket yoghurt is not healthy! If you’re going to eat yoghurt, why not have the real thing? Why not have the bee’s knees of yoghurt?

Did you know that not even the most expensive, organic, biodynamic, whole milk, natural tub set, blah, blah, etc etc. yoghurt can ever be as good as the white wobbly stuff you could easily make at home? It’s true.

But before you run off and make any old batch, hear me out. It must be 24 hour yoghurt, AKA ‘SCD’ yoghurt. SCD yoghurt is the holy grail of beneficial foods. It’s not just food, it’s medicine.

WELCOME TO A GUT FEELING

As my blog name suggests, I (finally) started to listen to my gut and that listening resulted in some big changes! After putting up with a stomach ache for 20 years I thought it high time something changed. In less than six months I put an end to my daily stomach pain.Find out more here…

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